Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces

Karen Monkman is Professor Emerita of Education at DePaul University, USA. Ann Frkovich is Associate Professor of Research at Concordia University, USA.

1 Introduction: Belonging in Globalizing Spaces
Ann Frkovich & Karen Monkman

Part I. Neoliberalism and the Complications of Belonging

2 The "Absolute Model" or "Disposable Commodities"? Navigating Charter School Teachers’ Roles under Neoliberal Policy Regimes
Beth Wright-Costello

3 Teacher or Policy Subject? Navigating Alternative Teacher Preparation in a Neoliberal Era
Angela Kraemer-Holland

4 "Each One Standing on the Other’s Head": Neoliberal Pariahdom and How Parvenu Culture Inhibits Broad Social Solidarity among the Working-Class
Jeremiah Howe

5 Creative Destruction in School Education during COVID-19
Mariano Narodowski & Delfina Campetella

Part II. Transnational Searches for Belonging

6 Adult Education as a Site for Integration? Experiences of Syrian Refugee Young Adults in Quebec
Ratna Ghosh, Domenique Sherab, Milagros Calderón Moya & Arianne Maraj

7 Learning to Transcend the Nation State: The Flexible Citizenship of China’s Elite Transnational Teenager
Ann Frkovich

8 Enacting Borderland Pedagogies: Transnational Returnee English Teachers in Mexico
Amy E. Laboe

Part III. Effects of Global Policy Discourses on Belonging

9 Networked Education Systems and the Flow of PISA-Induced References
Erika L. Kessler & Oren Pizmony-Levy

10 "I Am a Wicked Somebody": The Experience of Not Going to School in a Schooled Society
Grace Pai

11 Transcending Colonial Rule and Reimagining Rhodesia’s Future: The Rockefeller Foundation and the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1950–1980
Fungisai Musoni-Chikede

12 The Educational Quality Tribunal and its Influences on Teachers' Careers: The Chilean Case
Carmelo Galioto Allegra & Camila Pérez Navarro

Part IV. Knowledge and Practice for Global Belonging

13 Global Citizenship Education is a Verb: The Cultural Process of Constructing Global Citizens in an Age of Neoliberalism and English Language Dominance
Thatcher A. Spero

14 Educational Territories and Schools that Go Global: The Case of IB Schools and the Emergence of New Territorialities
Liliana Mayer & Verónica Gottau

15 Innovation in a Time of Making Do: COVID-19 and the Digital Divide through the Lens of a Mobile Phone Mathematics Program in South Africa
Martha Fitzpatrick Bishai

16 Conclusion: Belonging in Multi-Layered Spaces
Karen Monkman & Ann Frkovich